Tags archives: Yahoo

NumberFour, a Berlin-based startup, has just pulled in Europe's largest funding round in two years, with $38 million, according to TechCrunch. The company has been called "Europe's answer to Google and Facebook," and the murderer's row of investors [...]

Linea has raised a $4 million seed round from an undisclosed group of angel investors to expand its photo-sharing application, according to TechCrunch. The Seattle-based company says it is directly coming after Flickr, Shutterfly and Everpix, and fou[...]

Hulu, the video-streaming service owned by Comcast, Disney and News Corp., is in the midst of a secret auction, and sh*t. is. going. down.
According to Mashable, Yahoo has thrown its hat in the ring with a bid worth between $600-800 million. Cons[...]

Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital writes in a blog post that he was first introduced to a 19-year-old David Karp by Fred Seibert -- former creative director of MTV and producer of 'The Fairly Oddparents,' 'Adventure Time,' and other modern cartoon icons.
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Marissa Mayer has officially pulled a Michael Corleone: lured all her critics and enemies into false complacency, and then destroyed them in one grisly 24-hour bloodbath.
It starts, of course, with the announced acquisition of Tumblr for $1.1 bill[...]

Yahoo is officially acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion -- check out the New York Times article, TechCrunch post, and the Forbes PR hacks having a field day.
A few interesting rumors/snarks floating around the blogosphere:
1) Gawker reports that [...]

Mark Suster of GRP Partner's has got beef with the recent string of acqui-hires. Not only are they not an ideal outcome for venture capitalists -- "You make money by backing winners that build real businesses" -- but they are also send a bad message [...]

According to the New York Times, giants of tech and media are congregating in New York City for the Digital Content NewsFronts conference this week, showcasing their lineup of digital videos to advertisers and generally schvitzing about brand futures[...]

Writing on his blog, entrepreneur Andy Baio explains how Yahoo is closing Upcoming.org, an events community he sold 2005, in "typical f*ck-off-and-die style." The company gave about 11 days notice for the closing, and will provide no kind of onsite-[...]

Today's New York Times features an extensive profile of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer's efforts in turning around the company by purchasing creative startups.
Unfortunately, Yahoo has a history of acquiring potentially game-changing startups and squashi[...]

Since selling his news-summary app Summly to Yahoo for $30 million, Nick D'Aloisio has received a profile in the New York Times and countless jealous commenters across the web wondering how someone so young could earn such a big pay day.
As it tur[...]

Summly -- a news summary app built in 2011 by then 15-year-old Nick D'Aloisio -- has been purchased by Yahoo for a reported sum of $30 million, according to The Next Web.
Summly officially launched in November, and offers simple browsing and 400-c[...]